Thursday, 4 September 2014

Francis Chinjekure
Francis Chinjekure (born 1990) the founder of the Young Entrepreneur's Society of Zimbabwe,is serving as the Director of the Society since its inception in May 2012. Francis Chinjekure grew up in Manicaland, some 200 km east of Harare. He went to Buhera High school. He studied a B Tech Honours in Financial Engineering at Harare Institute of Technology. He is also a Director with the MMTAAZ (Mobile Money Transfer Agents Association of Zimbabwe)an association for mobile money transfer agents for all MNO's operating in Zimbabwe. Francis once worked as a financial analyst at GMRI and later on moved to REIM where he worked for the rest of 2013 as a property analyst. He has gained vast experience in structured finance spanning across the financial sector and the property sector. At the moment he is the Research person and analyst at the Real Estate Institute of Zimbabwe. While at University he has been named among the most enterprising student after exuding eloquent entrepreneurial skills by first fronting the formation of the Young Entrepreneurs Society of Zimbabwe which is determined to offer incubation to aspiring entrepreneurs. While at University, he worked with his business counterpart Thomas Muserepwa at RedSpot Communications to launch a college bank that was operating at the School in a partnership between their company and the school department. The bank was using Ecocash as a platform of trading of which they where offering Ecocash at the school using their Hostel room as their office. Realising the need to see their business growing they later on engaged other Ecocash Agents into forming a robust association today known as Mobile Money Transfer Agents Association of Zimbabwe which is an association aimed to see Agents getting support for growth and also educational support. MMTAAZ's dedication to the at work welfare of the Agents is second to none since the Directors including Francis Chinjekure and Thomas Muserepwa are driven by passion to see their business and also for all other agents growing.

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